Apple CEO Tim Cook Defends Parler App Suspension: ‘We Don’t Consider That Free Speech’
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorApple chief Tim Cook said posts on right-wing social app Parler represented “incitement to violence” that warranted its removal from the App Store.In an interview to air on Fox Broadcasting’s “Fox News Sunday” this Sunday (Jan. 17), Cook told anchor Chris Wallace that Apple “looked at the incitement to violence that was on there and… we don’t consider that free speech.”Asked by Wallace whether Apple’s booting of Parler, which had become popular among Trump loyalists as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook, would only serve to drive the app’s users “underground,” Cook responded, “Well, we’ve only suspended them, Chris.